Elliot Sang | Are You Disordered, or Just Different? @elliotsangestevez | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
I chatted with YouTuber @noahsamsen to discuss our experiences with mental conditions and normativity. How much of seeking treatment is focused on making us 'normal' instead of improving the conditions of our lives, dictated in collective, sociopolitical realms?

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edited by danae o.!

check out the full interview here: youtu.be/jfeuILKEHAw

00:00 - intro
01:13 - bipolar 2 and visibility
03:16 - the idea of "normal"
05:52 - "normal" and productivity
14:55 - diagnosis and the process of learning
24:07 - disorders in a different world

Bibliography

Katouche Goll (2020), “There's No Liberation Without Black Disabled People – But Are We Ready To Have That Conversation Yet?” blackballad.co.uk/views-voices/theres-no-liberation-without-black-disabled-people

Disability Arts Online (2022), “Embracing the Social Model of Disability for Arts Organizations” artsmidwest.org/resource/embracing-the-social-model-of-disability-for-arts-organizations

Social Model of Disability Diagram via researchgate.net/figure/Social-Model-of-Disability-diagram-adapted-from-wwwsalto-youthnet_fig1_320700392

Erica Schwiegershausen (2022), “We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Kanye”, thecut.com/2022/02/kanye-west-bipolar-disorder.html


Clips from:

Noah Place - “Life as a Bipolar YouTuber” youtube.com/watch?v=nLS2SHNW3XI
“Art School Confidential” (2006)
blackcatbonifide (old channel), Jonathan Coulton “I Feel Fantastic” (fan music video) youtube.com/watch?v=zidiWe9yq88
“The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe” (2022)
“The Social Network” (2010)
“The Simpsons” (episode “Lisa’s Sax”)
“Mean Girls” (2004)